Spycker

Nord · CU de Dunkerque · INSEE 59576

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 44.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 59 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Spycker (INSEE 59576) is in Nord (59), part of CU de Dunkerque. Population 1,718 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/59576-spycker

Vitality score

Vitality score 44.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 59 % of the 10,616 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.66	10	6.56
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.73	10	7.25
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 0 of 2

One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA PETITE MARMITE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE CAMELEON). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE BERNARD DEGUNST). ^[3]

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FLORENT DECLERCQ, MÉDECIN · QUENTIN HENOCQ, MÉDECIN · BÉRENGÈRE VERGRIETE, MÉDECIN · MARIE-HELENE BLANPAIN, MÉDECIN · PIERRE DEVLOIES, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE EUCHIN). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SPYCKER RP). ^[3]

2 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF · SALLE OMNISPORTS). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (AUX CISEAUX D OR · IMAGIN'HAIR · L'ATELIER DE SPYCK'HAIR). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	LA PETITE MARMITE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE CAMELEON	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE BERNARD DEGUNST	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	FLORENT DECLERCQ, MÉDECIN · QUENTIN HENOCQ, MÉDECIN · BÉRENGÈRE VERGRIETE, MÉDECIN · MARIE-HELENE BLANPAIN, MÉDECIN · PIERRE DEVLOIES, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE EUCHIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	SPYCKER RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	COMPLEXE SPORTIF · SALLE OMNISPORTS	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	4	AUX CISEAUX D OR · IMAGIN'HAIR · L'ATELIER DE SPYCK'HAIR	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 676 peak 2017: 1,807 2023: 1,718 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,644 (2012) → 1,718 (2023): 4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,402 (1990) → 1,718 (2023): 22.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 684, of which 0.6 % second homes and 2.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Spycker): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Spycker): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Spycker): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Spycker): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Spycker): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2▸

Days at or below 0 °C 15.2▸

Muggy days a summer 2.3

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 15 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the DUNKERQUE weather station, 9.7 km away at 11 m; the village itself is at 2 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at DUNKERQUE, 9.7 km away at 11 m, over 29 summers. ^[9]

An average of 702 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at DUNKERQUE, 9.7 km away at 11 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59576/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59576/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59576/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59576/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59576
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay	14	291 km SW	1,362	46.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-d'Aligné	72	405 km SW	1,729	41.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 66 %
Bois-Grenier	59	53 km SE	1,775	54.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Flize	08	224 km SE	1,683	47.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Preignan	32	817 km S	1,202	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 57 % · humidity 79 %
Arnèke	59	17 km SE	1,594	52.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Arnèke	59	17 km SE	1,594	52.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 93 %
Bois-Grenier	59	53 km SE	1,775	54.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Flize	08	224 km SE	1,683	47.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Honorine-du-Fay	14	291 km SW	1,362	46.4	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-d'Aligné	72	405 km SW	1,729	41.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 66 %
Preignan	32	817 km S	1,202	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 31 % · winter 57 % · humidity 79 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Spycker's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Edern	29	555 km SW	2,186	52.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Plounéventer	29	543 km SW	2,251	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Châteauneuf-d'Ille-et-Vilaine	35	406 km SW	1,664	58.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Canisy	50	327 km SW	1,707	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Le Drennec	29	552 km SW	1,896	42	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Lanrivoaré	29	572 km SW	1,551	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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